Gangs behind billion-pound cyber scam industry expanding as they try to dodge government crackdowns – new UN report

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Crime syndicates behind a multibillion-pound cyber scam industry are expanding globally as governments in South East Asia struggle to contain them, a UN report has warned. As they expand business, countries in South America, Africa and Eastern Europe are now being targeted, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said. The networks and gangs have emerged in South East Asia in recent years, in sprawling compounds housing tens of thousands of people, many trafficked and forced into work, scamming victims abroad. Sky News previously reported on one of these compounds, and the workers who were tricked, trafficked and...